fathom

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 9, 2015 -> 12:27 AM) If they are meeting at 7:40 You would have to give overwhelming odds on a DH tomorrow. 3:10 1st pitch. Agreed....gonna be a long day at the park

This is a joke right now with Noah out there

How many short shots can Noah miss?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 8, 2015 -> 11:35 PM) Levine reporting Robin has been asked to be more hands on by the front office, whatever that means. It's frustrating as this seems like Ventura's first year as a manager. At some point, you just have to admit it's not working out and put someone else in charge.

Jenifer Langosch ‏@LangoschMLB 14m14 minutes ago Matt Carpenter down with "extreme fatigue." #stlcards left him in St. Louis for this series to rest. Hope he's ok, as he's probably the NL MVP at this point.

QUOTE (flavum @ May 8, 2015 -> 09:45 PM) Not sure what the Reds reputation is for laying down bunts, but could they be playing Beckham just because of defense, and maybe the ability to handle what Marquis is throwing up there these days? Righties have roughed up Marquis this year, but still, play Beckham at SS if you want to get him into the lineup. As for the Reds, they have no team speed, right?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 8, 2015 -> 08:34 PM) the team wide flu maybe? But that's assuming Conor is within 50 feet of his teammates at least once. With Sierra gone, there's little proof of this existing.

QUOTE (flavum @ May 8, 2015 -> 09:32 PM) https://twitter.com/whitesox/status/596774412210155520 Beckham facing Marquis. Conor must be banged up, as that makes no sense. He's swinging as well as anyone the last week. That lineup is simply awful though.

reports coming out Vargas won't need TJS

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 8, 2015 -> 07:40 PM) And one of the worst defenses. And historically bad base running

BA has Sox taking the other Illinois native http://www.baseballamerica.com/draft/mlb-m...15-version-1-0/

Heck of an effort by the Cardinals in their series vs the Cubs this week!

QUOTE (Soxfest @ May 7, 2015 -> 09:48 PM) Hard to score when Eaton/Flowers/Alexi give you absolutely nothing so far. Kind of amazing the team's won 10 games when so many of the core players have been absolutely horrific. They're playing even beyond worst case scenario projections.

Make that 181 out of 183 for Eaton, and Alexei is 179th

Going into today, Eaton's 180th out of 182 offensive players in terms of WAR. Good thing he keeps leading off!

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ May 7, 2015 -> 08:44 PM) Offenses struggle. That's baseball. That's why the best hitters in the game struggle to get hits even 1 out of 3 times. What the f*** is Ventura doing managing this team, though? That's what I can't figure out. Of course he shouldn't be here, that's beyond obvious this season. Unfortunately the team is ran like a family-owned business where there's no accountability.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 7, 2015 -> 09:44 PM) Sale and Samardjiza are't really bench players though. Bullpen wise, they can't use Rodon today, so they're short in the pen.

QUOTE (LDF @ May 7, 2015 -> 09:43 PM) ooch.... that was harsh, but extremely funny. Reds have been hitting a ton of homers...should be quite interesting see them face Danks/Noesi

Aren't the Sox two men short on the bench right now due to suspensions?

QUOTE (shysocks @ May 7, 2015 -> 09:39 PM) Very weird decision on its surface but Jennings did pretty well when going >1 inning last year. 18 innings, 1 earned run, 17 hits, 3 walks, 16 K's. What makes it weird is that other guys were available. Probably saving other guys for this weekend when the bomb squad is pitching.

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ May 7, 2015 -> 09:35 PM) Ventura's managing is indefensible Bad managing, but this game was lost by the offense.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ May 7, 2015 -> 09:33 PM) Thank you Adam Eaton for being a no show this season

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ May 7, 2015 -> 09:30 PM) Why was this inning not treated as high leverage? Puzzling. Ozzie used to do this all the time, and it drove me nuts.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ May 7, 2015 -> 09:27 PM) Wrong base? I love how Hawk thinks Eaton is a good throwing outfielder. First, he might have the slowest release in all of baseball. Second, he seems to spike his throws about 1/3 of the time. When he doesn't spike it, he's off target.

QUOTE (Capn12 @ May 7, 2015 -> 08:25 PM) Losing one game in a series is understandable, it doesn't really bother me. But I'd at LEAST like to see some ability to hit consistently. Losing because we manage 3 hits and 1 run off of basically an almost rookie....pretty bad. Well said! Too many games like this already this year where a LHP just dominated the Sox (Millone, Price)